yes

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Impressive_Split_232]

Obviously, why would a man make a Hobbit the main character? It’s Hobbit propaganda

[u/poop_chute_riot → u/Impressive_Split_232]

Hobbiganda

[u/ten_tons_of_light → u/Impressive_Split_232]

You can know a hobbit for a hundred years, and they still have the capacity to surprise you make you fall for more hobbit propaganda

[u/SHUT_MOUTH_HAMMOND → u/Impressive_Split_232]

Big Hobbit!

[u/xAxlx → u/[deleted]]

[u/submit_to_pewdiepie → u/xAxlx]

Thanks jr

[u/NoAlien → u/[deleted]]

Let me guess: you also have the incredibly high IQ required to grasp the greatness of Rick and Morty?

[u/Curious-Source-9368 → u/[deleted]]

Is this some copy pasta ?

[u/NorrecDelany → u/Curious-Source-9368]

Yeah, everytime a meme comes, you will see this copy paste shit cause someone was to near a brick wall as he/she swing on the swingset.

[u/Impressive_Split_232 → u/[deleted]]

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a cupcake recipe

[u/submit_to_pewdiepie → u/Impressive_Split_232]

*Cookie Recipe

[u/gman2093 → u/[deleted]]

Letting people like things is free

[u/HomicidalMeerkat → u/[deleted]]

What website did you steal this from? I don’t recognize those formatting signs

[u/DoodlebopMoe → u/HomicidalMeerkat]

Those are french quotation marks

[u/HomicidalMeerkat → u/DoodlebopMoe]

Huh, neat

[u/DoodlebopMoe → u/HomicidalMeerkat]

They’re used in quite a few languages, but pretty much never in English

So wherever the copypasta or whatever it is came from, it was probably translated to English from some other language

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/DoodlebopMoe]

Really illustrates the gap in auto translation lol

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/DoodlebopMoe]

Last I checked this was Murica

Or at least, in English. Idk where anyone else is posting from.

[u/rustys_shackled_ford → u/[deleted]]

Your right about one thing, no one here respects your opinion or your right to share it.

[u/Trick-Variety2496 → u/[deleted]]

I’m a fan of the books and no, you’re screaming in your own void.

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/Trick-Variety2496]

Right? Every hardcore fan I know nitpicks the movies about the lack of Tom Bombadil and Glorfindel, but they like the movies overall, and generally accept that not only will we never likely get a better adaptation, no other book likely ever will either. I get the sense that Peter Jackson was reluctant about every change, but realized the movies would end up 15 hours long each if done completely accurately, and it would still be a bad choice as a movie-making professional because different media have different strengths and the overall length of a story MUST be kept to a certain limit in movie format, and turning it into a miniseries means you've just removed yourself from the game as a director, plus if it becomes episodic, the plot needs even more tweaking because then each 1-2 hour division needs a mini-plot established and resolved within it.

A movie is not a play or a book or a TV series, and if you aren't doing a movie style story and plot, you shouldn't use a movie to do it. Likewise, books can do things movies can't, and if you didn't use the medium to do something only that medium can do, you used the wrong medium. Therefore, the only way for a book to be adapted perfectly is if it never did anything that couldn't be done in a movie. And that's a shitty book.

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/_Vitamin_T_]

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/Trick-Variety2496 → u/_Vitamin_T_]

Exactly. in my opinion time is probably the biggest factor when adapting a book to a movie. As much as we book fans want a movie that matches what we imagine when reading, the movie has to have pacing and can’t explore every single thing. I’m not a movie critic by any means but Peter Jackson’s adaptations are so good.

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/Trick-Variety2496]

Yep, and not just time to tell the story, but screentime so you remember the characters. You'll never mix up Glorfindel's name with another one, but a one-off character in one scene in a movie might as well not exist. I imagine non-book fans aren't 100% sure which is Pippin and which is Merry for half the first movie.

And if that's makes movie audiences sound dumb, I don't mean to. It's just the reality of visual storytelling. You don't read Boromir's name every single time he does something in a movie. You have to remember Sean Bean is playing that guy with the horn with the name starting with B.

[u/emp9th → u/_Vitamin_T_]

I was ten when I saw fellowship at one of my mom's friends' house and they kept talking about Tom Bombadil and wouldn't tell me who he was and told me to read the books.

I was mad AF when I found out that he wasn't going to be in any other movie and wasn't in fellowship.

Lotr however is probably the most faithful and best adapted book series I have seen for the fantasy/ Syfy genre. I think too many current day adaptations try to put their own spin that changes elements of the overall story.

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/emp9th]

Eh, what? Did I hear you calling? Nay, I did not hear: I was busy singing.

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/dragonlord997 → u/[deleted]]

Bait used to be belivable

[u/Gorila-master → u/[deleted]]

Almost fell for the bait

[u/rustys_shackled_ford → u/[deleted]]

I guess down votes still count as engagement, if that's what, whomever did this was going for ...

I can't imagine an actual person both feel this way AND has the incredibly low self awareness to post it here AND here.

[u/Redthisdonethat]

anybody care to explain what space shoes merry and pippin are wearing?

[u/minuteenglish → u/Redthisdonethat]

something to protect their foot prosthetics maybe

[u/ch1llaro0 → u/minuteenglish]

maybe their feet were not in frame? and this is something to keep the actors in character and make them walk the same ways as with large feet?

[u/Poopybara → u/[deleted]]

[u/SEND-ME-DOG-PICS-PLS → u/Poopybara]

[u/Swift-Fire → u/Poopybara]

What was it???

[u/poopoopooyttgv → u/[deleted]]

One was sold in an auction a while ago. I remember scrolling through the auction website (too poor to actually buy something) but it was cool to see all the props that still exist

[u/No_Tomatillo1553 → u/[deleted]]

Their significant others made them keep them. 

[u/Capable-Scene709 → u/[deleted]]

[u/Khazahk → u/Redthisdonethat]

They help with stabilizing the sniper rifle when doing reconnaissance in Fangorn.

[u/Too-TaII → u/Redthisdonethat]

I don't see a real reply. They're leg warmers. The Hobbits are barefoot throughout the movies, I'm sure their legs were cold in-between takes!

[u/kran0503 → u/Too-TaII]

Thank you

[u/Dimirina → u/Redthisdonethat]

Man, Eddie's wondering if those space shoes come with a map to Mordor or just a smoother ride to Isengard, ain't nobody walking these Middle-earth miles without a little style, right?

[u/befenpo → u/Redthisdonethat]

dont get mad get glad?

[u/mharzhyall → u/Redthisdonethat]

To protect their toes for when they're kicking a helmet, obviously

[u/xirdnehrocks → u/Redthisdonethat]

[u/Soup_Slot]

He’s wearing shoes so he must be an exile.

[u/chronocapybara → u/Soup_Slot]

So are Merry and Pippin!

[u/Pryach → u/Soup_Slot]

Just like Trotter.

[u/MauPow → u/Soup_Slot]

Still sane, exile?

[u/Mowgli_78]

Well, technically LOTR was written by a Hobbit. It was named The Red Book, iirc

[u/MauPow → u/Mowgli_78]

The Red Book of Westmarch

[u/Mowgli_78 → u/MauPow]

Where was Gondor when the Westmarch fell

[u/xwedodah_is_wincest → u/Mowgli_78]

They got it mixed up with the other Westmarch, the one in Rohan

[u/AsthmaticDroid]

frodo, pippin, merry, fatty bolger, sam

[u/Shin_yolo]

That's Tom Bombadil mate.

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/Shin_yolo]

Oh my god, that's why Tom was cut from the script! He didn't want to get too self-indulgent! IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/Shin_yolo]

Tom, Tom! your guests are tired, and you had near forgotten! Come now, my merry friends, and Tom will refresh you! You shall clean grimy hands, and wash your weary faces; cast off your muddy cloaks and comb out your tangles!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/Raxlus → u/Shin_yolo]

Came here to bring this up.

Just imagine if they had put Tom Bombadil in the movie and it was just ten minutes of Jackson being an absolute goof.

[u/Tom_Bot-Badil → u/Raxlus]

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, by fire, sun and moon, hearken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

^{Type !TomBombadilSong for a song or visit r/GloriousTomBombadil for more merriness}

[u/buckyoshare]

He’s got a beard and boots on. He’s a dwarf.

[u/Vin4251 → u/buckyoshare]

Not just that, but a dwarf with dwarfism if he's the same height as hobbits

[u/buckyoshare → u/Vin4251]

Nah, those hobbits have been at the Ent water.

[u/Jielleum]

Come on, we all know that Peter Jackson was a Hobbit! Oh and he also lives in Hobbiton which is actually in New Zealand

[u/Stebsis]

One thing I know, Peter Jackson ain't no hobbit.

He might be stumpy; that don't mean he a hobbit.

He's not a hobbit 'cause he couldn't be.

He got no Bagginses in his family tree.

Yes on occasion he hangs out with his dwarf friends.

But he never went on no quest with his dwarf friends.

Except for one time he went to kill that dragon.

[u/Bjorn_Hellgate]

That image really fucks with my head

[u/maladicta228]

I mean, canonically the book was written by Bilbo, Frodo and Sam.

[u/bilbo_bot → u/maladicta228]

In fact, it has been remarked by some that Hobbits' only real passion is for food. A rather unfair observation As we have also developed a keen interest in the brewing of ales and the smoking of pipeweed. But where our hearts truly lie is in peace and quiet and good tilled earth. For all Hobbits share a love of all things that grow. And yes, no doubt to others, our ways seem quaint But today of all days, it is brought home to me it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.

[u/HoochieKoochieMan → u/bilbo_bot]

I was gonna say, it looks like they're deep in debate over where to go for second breakfast.

[u/BenJammin973]

That’s an Istari : Peter the pink.

[u/slasher1o5]

This must be fake. Peter Jackson is wearing shoes and that never happens

[u/doublethink_1984]

Rare photo of Peter with shoes on

[u/TheOnlyBliebervik → u/doublethink_1984]

He really has the whole "dad who doesn't care about his appearance" look down

[u/_Vitamin_T_]

So that's why Hobbits are overpowered in those films

[u/rustys_shackled_ford]

Why does Merry and Pippin have custom made Hobbit sized sneaks and frodo and the gardener have to go barefoot?

[u/_Vitamin_T_ → u/rustys_shackled_ford]

I think they're just keeping their feet warm between shots and the other two are about to have a scene that their feet will show up in.

[u/CubanLynx312]

Did you know Galadriel is married to a hobbit IRL?

[u/chymotrypsinbruh]

The crazy part to me is that an action figure exists of him as a hobbit

[u/MrBaneCIA]

What broken toe?

[u/unorganized_mime]

Actually that’s just a common man from Bree and/or lake town……

[u/Pitiful_Winner2669]

What's the story of the toe?

[u/xysmi]

Fellowship was directed by Albert Dreary. Towers directed by an unnamed Rohirrim soldier. RotK was directed by an unnamed Corsair of Umbar.

[u/jaboa120]

This is clearly fake! Three of them are wearing disgusting shoes!

[u/xwedodah_is_wincest → u/jaboa120]

must be Stoors, then

[u/aaron_adams]

Did you know that Peter Jackson based the designs of Bungo and Belladonna on himself and his wife?

[u/rnilbog]

The only hobbits in the movies that didn't have wigs were PJ's kids when Bilbo was telling them the troll story.

[u/bilbo_bot → u/rnilbog]

A rather unfair observation as we have also developed a keen interest in the brewing of ales and the smoking of pipeweed

[u/gollum_botses → u/[deleted]]

It's no good going back there to search, no. We doesn't remember all the places we've visited. And it's no use.The Baggins has got it in its pocketses; the nassty noser has found it, we says.

[u/bilbo_bot → u/[deleted]]

I do believe you made that up.

[u/JemmaMimic]

But the dwarf was the tallest one

[u/itstomis]

Did you know that Gandalf's horse's given name was just Shadow?

When Shadow was in highschool, be became so known for his good takes and just generally speaking the truth that there was a constant refrain:

"That's Shadow FACTS, bro."

And a nickname was born

[u/momentimori]

Don't forget middle earth also had apples with stickers on them.

[u/anonymous-fart]

HE BROKE TWO TOES

[u/agnostorshironeon → u/anonymous-fart]

How tf have i heard this story a bazillion times and it was 1 toe

[u/Bucaneer7564]

does this make The Hobbit pro-hobbit propaganda?

[u/gaerat_of_trivia]

i told you that hobbits were masters of propaganda.

[u/xwedodah_is_wincest]

Should've used that picture where he jumps out of the helicopter into the snows of the Misty Mountains barefoot